zim for android

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:47 PM, nachiket
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> New question #131433 on Zim:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/zim/+question/131433
>
> How easy will it be to port Zim for Android?

This will be impossible (except for a complete rewrite) unless there
is good Python support for Android.

Jaap, thanks so much for Zim! It meets a huge need and is very good at what it does.

What if, instead of attempting to port Zim completely to Android, someone wrote a text editor for Android that enables WYSIWYG editing of Zim-formatted text files? Here's my setup and this would be the last "missing piece" to make it work perfectly:

I use Dropbox (though it should work with UbuntuOne or other cloud sync services) on two Ubuntu laptops and my Android phone. I have my Zim "Notes" notebook shared through Dropbox and, on the two Ubuntu laptops, things work as expected. I do find that I need to restart Zim when switching to the other laptop so as to see all the changes that have been made, but this is not a problem.

When I'm on the road and using my Android phone, I use the Dropbox file browser, browse to a text file in the "Notes" notebook and open it in a text editor. When I save the file, the changes are uploaded automatically via Dropbox and are waiting on my laptop(s) when I return.

This works well, so far, but it would be really nice to have a graphical user interface and WYSIWYG editing for the editor on the phone. I don't think this would be hard to implement, as the Zim markup is documented and simple. Any ideas where to look for Android hackers that might want to put together a basic text editor with the features listed above? It seems simple enough that AppInventor might be a place to start: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Hi TIm,

Not many people read this question section. What you might want to do
is put a feature request for a simple android frontend in the bug
tracker and or the mailing list. I don't have any android devices, so
will not pick it up myself, but maybe there are more people who want
this out there.

Regards,

Jaap

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Tim
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> Question #131433 on Zim changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/zim/+question/131433
>
> Tim posted a new comment:
> Jaap, thanks so much for Zim! It meets a huge need and is very good at
> what it does.
>
> What if, instead of attempting to port Zim completely to Android,
> someone wrote a text editor for Android that enables WYSIWYG editing of
> Zim-formatted text files? Here's my setup and this would be the last
> "missing piece" to make it work perfectly:
>
> I use Dropbox (though it should work with UbuntuOne or other cloud sync
> services) on two Ubuntu laptops and my Android phone. I have my Zim
> "Notes" notebook shared through Dropbox and, on the two Ubuntu laptops,
> things work as expected. I do find that I need to restart Zim when
> switching to the other laptop so as to see all the changes that have
> been made, but this is not a problem.
>
> When I'm on the road and using my Android phone, I use the Dropbox file
> browser, browse to a text file in the "Notes" notebook and open it in a
> text editor. When I save the file, the changes are uploaded
> automatically via Dropbox and are waiting on my laptop(s) when I return.
>
> This works well, so far, but it would be really nice to have a graphical
> user interface and WYSIWYG editing for the editor on the phone. I don't
> think this would be hard to implement, as the Zim markup is documented
> and simple. Any ideas where to look for Android hackers that might want
> to put together a basic text editor with the features listed above? It
> seems simple enough that AppInventor might be a place to start:
> http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
>
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